ENRAGED CHINAMAN.
FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. ANNOYANCE BY LARRIKINS. £Pbh Pbem Association.J . Invercargill, May 28. A fatal shooting case occurred here about midnight, Hector Morrison (20) being shot dead by a Chinaman named Lock Kin (69), who keeps a boarding house in Leet Street. The Chinaman was subjected to frequent annoyance by larrikins, and had to send for police assistance la.t j night. When the constable arrived, be found Morrison lying dead in a pool of blood on the footpath. After his door had been battered and the windows broken, accused went out with a gun and fired to scare intruders, not seeing Morrison in the darkness. Accused was brought before the Court and charged with murder and was remanded.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 31, 28 May 1914, Page 6
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119ENRAGED CHINAMAN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 31, 28 May 1914, Page 6
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